Team & Proof Points
Founder
Martin Saxby
Business and technology leader with a track record spanning enterprise infrastructure and applied AI. Has served as Global Marketing Director for a cloud workload migration platform, and as Creative Partner at an AI-powered marketing agency, driving adoption of advanced AI technologies into real commercial workflows. Brings the product vision and go-to-market instinct behind AuthOrigin.
Technical Architecture
Amar Rao
GCC Architect & Fractional CTO who designs high-scale Global Capability Centers and mission-critical platforms, with hands-on AI strategy experience. Leads the technical architecture translating the KTI standard's molecule, lineage, and disclosure-layer model into a buildable, enterprise-grade system.
Compliance & Regulatory
Chris Walker
Head of Compliance and Managing Partner at a London-based payments clearing firm, with 10+ years in financial compliance and regulatory risk. Brings direct expertise in the rights, licensing, and audit-trail rigor that KTI's Rights Contract and AKTH Handshake model depend on — the same discipline the AI Data Rights Clearance and Enterprise Dedupe use cases are built around.
A complementary founding team, not a solo generalist.
Product/GTM (Saxby), technical architecture for mission-critical AI platforms (Rao), and financial compliance/regulatory rigor (Walker) — the three disciplines a rights-and-value-exchange infrastructure actually needs, already in the room.
A published, versioned open standard, not just a pitch deck.
AO-KTI-SYSTEM-001 defines canonicalisation, molecule lineage via successor objects, a formal disclosure model, and full state machines for both molecule lifecycle and knowledge observation — specification-grade documentation matching the rigor of standards bodies like C2PA.
A working technical reference implementation.
"Inspired by AuthOrigin" is a live, functioning reference architecture demonstrating molecules, VSID, MetaDerma/Restricted Core disclosure, and the AKTH handshake flow — not slideware.
A disclosure model solving a named, real problem.
The MetaDerma/Restricted Core split directly answers the AI industry's "data wall" — discovery and evaluation of licensable content without forcing owners to expose confidential assets pre-license. The Restricted Core is a cryptographically bound reference to potentially regulated data, retained by the originating custodian, with access governed independently via Rights Resolution or a completed AKTH Handshake.
Rigorous competitive and IP diligence, done before spending on brand.
Full landscape mapping against C2PA, The DATA Foundation, and Akave. Trademark exposure on "AuthOrigin" was actively investigated (UK Companies House search, prior-use check) rather than assumed clean.
A brand architecture built for credibility with standards-adjacent partners.
The KTI (open standard) / AuthOrigin (implementer) split follows precedent set by C2PA/Content Credentials and W3C/HTML — signalling infrastructure others can adopt, which matters for MDM/enterprise partnership conversations (Reltio, SAP) and against single-vendor competitors.